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Entry 13: Neil Gorsuch is everything liberals feared—and more.
Slate ^ | June 26, 2017 | Mark Joseph Stern

Posted on 06/26/2017 4:42:45 PM PDT by Pinkbell

On Monday, Justice Neil Gorsuch revealed himself to be everything that liberals had most feared: pro-gun, pro–travel ban, anti-gay, anti–church/state separation. He is certainly more conservative than Justice Samuel Alito and possibly to the right of Justice Clarence Thomas. He is an uncompromising reactionary and an unmitigated disaster for the progressive constitutional project. And he will likely serve on the court for at least three more decades.

Although Gorsuch has barely been on the bench for two months, he has already had an opportunity to weigh in on some of the most pressing constitutional issues of our time. In each case, he has chosen the most conservative position. On Monday, Gorsuch indicated that he opposes equal rights for same-sex couples, dissenting from a ruling that requires states to list same-sex parents on birth certificates. (Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito joined his dissent.) That, alone, is startling: In Obergefell v. Hodges, the court held that the Constitution compels states to grant same-sex couples “the constellation” of “rights, benefits, and responsibilities” that “the states have linked to marriage,” including “birth and death certificates.”

Obergefell, then, already settled this issue. Gorsuch’s dissent suggests he may not accept Obergefell as settled law and may instead seek to undermine or reverse it. Gorsuch also joined Thomas in dissenting from the court’s refusal to review a challenge to California’s concealed carry laws. California grants concealed carry permits for “good cause”—namely, a “particularized need, substantiated by documentary evidence, to carry a firearm for self-defense.” Gun advocates challenged this rule, alleging a violation of the Second Amendment. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the California regime, and on Monday, the court declined to reconsider its decision...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gorsuch; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: nevergore
Liberal heads will explode and the Republic will be safe for 40 years.....

Safer, but we can never let our guard down and assume 'safe' from the enemy within. They will hide and fester and wait for another day.

21 posted on 06/26/2017 5:07:48 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Pinkbell

Thank you, thank you for posting this without a barf alert. It brilliantly shows what a great pick this was by OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP. May there be three or more such fantastic picks.


22 posted on 06/26/2017 5:10:16 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: spokeshave

What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!

It’s twice as good with liberals because they all count as women, and even the men who don’t “identify” as women act like they eventually will. Their tears are what is best in life.


23 posted on 06/26/2017 5:10:48 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pinkbell

24 posted on 06/26/2017 5:10:49 PM PDT by Company Man (Best POTUS evah!)
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To: Persevero

Time to put on another pot of covfefe...


25 posted on 06/26/2017 5:16:21 PM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: Pinkbell

Glad to see the libs fear Gorsuch as they do. Now we need at least four more of his kind on the SCOTUS.


26 posted on 06/26/2017 5:16:52 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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To: nevergore

The Republic is never safe. We must maintain constant vigilance.


27 posted on 06/26/2017 5:17:36 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: sargon

Exactly the words that screamed at me: the progressive constitutional project. If Justice Gorsuch is a disaster for that then he must be a Godsend.


28 posted on 06/26/2017 5:18:03 PM PDT by CarolAnn
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To: Pinkbell

Mwaaa-ha-ha!

Two or three more, please. The dumb RATS even forced Myrtle to dump the filibuster, so now they have nothing next time.


29 posted on 06/26/2017 5:18:17 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: FormerLib

Progressive Constitutional Project = a living Constitution subject to change at any time like Article 2 Sec 1 - any person regardless of age, gender or nationality qualifies to the office of the chief executive.


30 posted on 06/26/2017 5:20:31 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Pinkbell
On Monday, Justice Neil Gorsuch revealed himself to be everything that liberals had most feared: pro-gun, pro–travel ban, anti-gay, anti–church/state separation. He is certainly more conservative than Justice Samuel Alito and possibly to the right of Justice Clarence Thomas. He is an uncompromising reactionary and an unmitigated disaster for the progressive constitutional project. And he will likely serve on the court for at least three more decades.

You say this like it's a bad thing.

31 posted on 06/26/2017 5:21:53 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Pinkbell

That and those who doubted Trump as well


32 posted on 06/26/2017 5:22:29 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: FormerLib
At least half of all FReepers also screamed - "HE IS SO A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII !!!! "
33 posted on 06/26/2017 5:25:11 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Pollster1

I just like watching their heads explode. I guess I’m a little twisted.


34 posted on 06/26/2017 5:31:03 PM PDT by CarolAnn
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To: Pinkbell
antediluvian?

LOL!

35 posted on 06/26/2017 5:31:50 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Magnum44

“Safer, but we can never let our guard down and assume ‘safe’ from the enemy within. They will hide and fester and wait for another day. “

I learned this from the 80s. Everything was going so well in the 80s. We had Reagan, and the trajectory was really good. I thought America had returned to its collective senses in a sort of permanent way.

Boy was I wrong.

Enjoy the current victories, though.


36 posted on 06/26/2017 5:32:11 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Pinkbell

More articles like this, and I may break into my happy dance.

5.56mm


37 posted on 06/26/2017 5:34:21 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Pinkbell

38 posted on 06/26/2017 5:36:40 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: Persevero

I think God gave America a chance in the 80’s to jump on board with Him personally... and it did not.

Now this is happening again, this time with a stronger wooing and a stronger warning, under Donald Trump.

It might meet with success this time. I pray to God as He sits at the foundation of the world that He will schedule in the elect, as He did in John Knox era Scotland.


39 posted on 06/26/2017 5:39:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeeSharp

So “wicked” it would have to be before the Great Flood.


40 posted on 06/26/2017 5:40:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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